Truffle Media update for January 25, 2011, Facebook and PRRS

Submitted by John Blue on January 26, 2011 - 12:07am.

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Marketing Posts To Help You

More Inc. 500 Companies Succeeding With Facebook - More companies are utilizing social media and using the tools in their business processes. From Marketing Profs "More than seven in ten (71%) of the nation's fastest-growing private companies now use Facebook and, among them, 85% say their efforts are proving successful, up 36 percentage points from the 54% that said so a year earlier, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's Center for Marketing Research."

Agriculture Questions On Which To Take Action - The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture is helping shape the UK Government’s Foresight Global Food and Farming Futures project. These questions offer source material on which new ideas may spring and address food / agriculture issues. From the report: "Despite a signiﬁcant growth in food production over the past half-century, one of the most important challenges facing society today is how to feed an expected population of some nine billion by the middle of the 20th century."

How Are Agricultural Stories Being Told?

2010 International PRRS Conference - PRRS continues to be a major issue for swine producers around the world as illustrated by this international conference. Available here are presentations from the Boehringer Ingelheim PRRS symposium and the International PRRS Symposium, held December 3 - 4, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA.

USDA Open Gov Plan - The Open Gov Initiative was launched with President Obama stating "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government". The USDA launched their initiative soon there after. Do you have an idea you want to see happen in agriculture related to open government?